28 May, 2016

The real "Minority Report"?

It was
recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented
an Orwellian new program that targets innocent citizens based on
indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry
out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a
complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in
the city, and use private data about each person to determine whether
or not they could be a potential criminal.

Once an
innocent civilian has been labeled as a threat, they are then
notified that they have been marked as a potential criminal and that
they are now under police surveillance.

This
disturbing program has quietly been in place for over three years,
and in that time, government agents have visited the homes of more
than 1,300 innocent people who had high numbers on the list, to
inform them that they are now regarded as potential criminals.
According to the New York Times, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson
says that officials this year are stepping up those visits, with at
least 1,000 more people.